I don’t get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.
BERKELEY BREATHEDThe digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
More Berkeley Breathed Quotes
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Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us…
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Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he’s a professional whiner in the newspaper.
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It’s never too late to have a happy childhood.
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I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child – which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.
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Steve Dallas…a frat-boy lawyer who I knew in school. He’s never written me. I suspect he was shot by an annoyed girlfriend, which has saved me many legal fees.
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
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I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I’d spent a childhood in a far different place.
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Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I’d never had before. I didn’t meet the people who read my material.
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I knew ‘Mars Needs Moms! ‘ would be a movie seconds after the title came to mind. Similarly, I also knew that my daughter would be calling me a dork as a default term of endearment eventually.
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I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas’ Daily Texan.
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That’s the conundrum of cartoon stripping, as opposed to political cartoons. When your anger is the driving force of your drawing hand, failure follows. The anger is OK, but it has to serve the interests of the heart, frankly.
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My kids hear me behind my door, giggling like an idiot, and they roll their eyes at the blatant indignity of it all.
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The universe throws us some obvious little pitches sometimes, and we need to be awake enough not to let them slip by.
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Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.
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